Arabic version: أنثروبيك تستهدف تقييماً بـ1.3 تريليون دولار في إدراجها ببورصة ناسداك

According to BBC News, Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, could be valued at about $1.3tn (£1tn) when it lists shares on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange. The loss-making company plans to float this month.

Anthropic said it would offer shares at between $70 and $78 each and raise up to $64bn. That would put its valuation between $1.1tn and $1.3tn, below the $2tn that some of the firm’s backers predicted in summer, the Financial Times reported.

The listing comes during a volatile period for AI companies. The Nasdaq fell sharply after last week’s US midterm elections, on concerns that a Democrat-led Congress could slow AI development and the construction of data centres. There are also broader concerns about the billions of dollars being spent on AI and whether those investments will pay off.

For the six months to the end of June, Anthropic’s revenue rose to $16.2bn from $1.1bn in the same period a year earlier. Its pre-tax loss, however, increased to $80.7bn from $12.9bn.

Fiona Cincotta, a senior market analyst at City Index, told Reuters that the planned $64bn raise was “fairly bullish” given recent volatility and concerns around AI. She said it showed the company remained upbeat about the outlook and expected demand to be there.

At a possible $1.3tn valuation, Anthropic would be worth less than SpaceX, which listed in June at nearly $1.8tn. Anthropic was co-founded in 2021 by brother and sister Dario and Daniela Amodei and five others, all of whom had worked at OpenAI.